Tip 1 Pick your herbs just before you plan to dry them. They are just right when they are fully developed and just commencing budding. Pick off any damaged leaves or dead bits of stem.
Tip 2 Have a good look over the bunch and ensure that your herbs are insect-free. It is not recommended that you wash your herbs once picked unless they really need it. If your herbs look like they need washing, you could hose them a day or two before you pick them, allow them to dry, then cut your bunches for drying.
Tip 3 Have everything ready so that you can prepare the herbs for drying as soon as you cut them.
Tip 4 To allow the herbs to dry at a similar rate, gather them in similar size bunches. For each drying bunch - tie about 8 - 10 stems together.
Tip 5 For the majority of the herb bunches, tie their stems together with string and hang upside down. Some of the larger bunches of herbs can be hung on a hook or wire by themselves. But, remember to hang them upside down.
Tip 6 If your drying location is at risk of contamination (e.g. dust, smoke, wind) place a paper bag (or other cover) over your herbs.
Tip 7 A warm, dry, dark location is the best place to dry your herbs. (e.g. shed, loft or pantry cupboard)
Tip 8 In the right conditions, it takes approximately five days for your herbs to dry. In cooler conditions, it may take up to two weeks for your herbs to dry. The best temperature for drying herbs is around 30o C (85o F).
Tip 9 It is OK to dry different types of herbs at the same time. Just make sure that you do not place them too close together. If the herbs are too close together the properties of one herb may taint the other.
Tip 10 When the herbs leaves are papery (fragile) the drying is complete. If your herb leaves collapse when touched, you have let the drying process go on for too long.
Tip 11 To store your herbs, remove the leaves from the stems. Try to keep the leaves intact as best as you can, in as larger pieces as possible, even whole leaves if you can. This will help your herbs to keep their wonderful qualities. Tip: Gather the dried leaves on a piece of paper. Use the paper to pour your dried leaves into an airtight container.
Tip 12 Do not commence drying another batch of herbs until previous batches of herbs are ready.
Tip 13 Store your newly dried herbs away from sunlight. Ensure your container is airtight, preferably glass and even better if you have a dark glass container.
Tip 14 Crush your herbs just before you plan to use them.
Some herbs suitable for hang drying are: rosemary, sage, lemon balm, wormwood, lovage, parsley, mint and lavender.
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In the unlikely even you simple can't think of any topic you could talk about, then uou could collect a number of private label rights (PLR) products and convert them into DVD format, and then sell them as a physical product.
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Ok. You've created your video tutorial or converted some PLR's to DVD. From there you can have the DVD duplicated with four-color printing and have it in four-color printed packaging which makes it look very professional.
This may cost you a couple dollars each, but that's just if you want to be fancy about it by using photographs. Otherwise, two-color printing will work just fine.
Now your DVDs are ready to sell. From just a couple of bucks for production costs, you can mark up your product as you see fit. Charge $97.00 or $149.00 a copy, over and over again.
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Like I mentiond before, the way way to make a valuable DVD is to create a "show n tell" tutorial on how to do something people want to do, or how to have something people want to have.
This is the information age and if you put out the information, and people are hungry for information. And the truth is that if you are currently selling printed how-to material, you can command a much higher price if you provide that information in DVD format.
Information DVDs are perfect products to develop as they are inexpensive to make, yet have a high-perceived value. They are heavily in demand, and staggeringly easy to sell for huge profits. The money you can generate from doing this is truly outrageous!
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